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Today, 2026-10-24, it appears google is blocking me from using most tabs in Firefox. Versions are 115.18.0esr (64-bit) and 100.0b7 (64-bit). Worked fine yesterday. I have various Win 7 versions on my three machines. I've been getting warning messages from google for some time about stopping support for Firefox and I contacted them to get a date, but never received a reply. On one machine, when I start Firefox, it immediately dies. On the other two machines, it only lets some websites run, but not my personal gmail or my HSU student gmail. I was planning to install Win 11 on at least one machine, just have done so yet. I could try upgrading to 115.43.1esr. Yes. I am a bit of a Luddite; I started working in computers in 1977.

which addons use the FF built in automatic tab unload ? I do not want extensions with own method because once an addon crashed and i LOST ALL TABS ! :( So searching or sorting for native tab sleep would be more comforting. thx

tags: tab tabs deactivate discard unload memory

About 3 weeks or a month ago I no longer can identify if I am in a private window or not. I used to get a screen with dark borders and it identified itself as a private window. I've tried everything in settings to try to get this private screen back but have not been successful. I have not tried falling back an update or 2. I would appreciate some help with this issue.

If I load multiple tabs of this site it is really slow or keeps spinning. Then all of a sudden it will load fast. It runs good on Chrome but I don't want to switch to Chrome.

ive just downloaded firefox and its giving me performance issues I play gta 5 all day with my chrome tabs open maybe more then 5 sometimes more then 8 and When I had more then 4 or 5 tabs my gta 5 started to lag when i opened my task manager i see that Firefox is using more then my Game.

Yahoo changed everything and I can find anything. Is there any way to get back my classic Yahoo. I would like to keep my Yahoo email because it is linked to everything. I fix most problems but it seems like everyday there is another missing part of the old classic Yahoo.

The problem of hanging on specific web pages but not always in the same place greatly increased 11/22/2026 running Firefox 115.38ESR under Windows 7 so I suspect that it is due to some widespread update and a new esr update is needed. 115.43.1esr did not help. Sometimes it happens while loading a page, sometimes when attempting to scroll the page and sometimes when entering data into a field.

If you navigate away from the Instagram page on Firefox on Mac and come back, the page is blank. You have to reload it every time. This is happening on other sites too?

How does one get support????

I am unable to download and open attachments in gmail. I get a message "gmail virus scanners are temporarily unavailable. I am able to open them in Google Docs, in My Drive and using Edge. I believe something in Firefox if blocking the process.

In Firefox 158, swiping left or right with two fingers to go back/forward between pages now has a haptic feedback and sound using a trackpad. This is INCREDIBLY annoying and completely unnecessary, I spent 30 minutes looking up Macbook help because I thought my trackpad was broken. Please allow us to disable this, it is so annoying to have the trackpad making noise so frequently. This is not a "get used to a new feature" type of sound, this is a "I will stop using Firefox entirely because of how annoying it is" sound. There is no benefit to this noise, swiping left/right to navigate back/forward doesn't need additional haptic feedback because you can visually see the browser go back or forward. I can't believe this design choice got past QA, it becomes annoying and intrusive the first time you use it, let alone the 10-15 times a minute it happens when browsing normally.